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Noting the significant achievements over the past decade in reducing
pollution, conserving natural resources and providing a better human
environment;

Recognizing the need to integrate environmental, economic and social
policies;

Convinced that improving the human environment involves sustained
long-term effort requiring policies that take into account at an early stage
the environmental consequences of major decisions;

Mindful of the hazards to health and the environment arising from
certain socio-economic activities;

Aware that market mechanisms by themselves often do not induce decisions
that reflect their environmental consequences and costs;

Determined to pursue vigorous environmental policies in a manner
consistent with their constitutional, legal and market economy systems;

DECLARE THAT:

1. They will strive to ensure that environmental considerations are
incorporated at an early stage of any decision in all economic and social
sectors likely to have significant environmental consequences.

2. They will seek more effective institutional, economic and other means to
integrate environmental policy with policies in other sectors and in so doing,
will attach priority to land-use planning and to the chemicals, energy and
other sectors having a major impact on the environment.

3. They will, where appropriate and possible, employ economic and fiscal
instruments, in combination as need be with regulatory instruments, to induce
public and private enterprises and individuals to anticipate the environmental
consequences of their actions and take them into account in their decisions

4. They will encourage the design, development and use of processes, products
and urban form that conserve resources and energy, and that protect and enhance
the environment.

5. They will, in proposing laws and making regulations, seek to avoid unduly
complex or conflicting requirements and unnecessary delays in decisions
affecting the environment.

6. They will endeavour, to the extent practicable, to develop systems to
account for changes in environmental quality and related resource stocks.

7. They will encourage public participation, where possible, in the preparation
of decisions with significant environmental consequences, inter alia, by
providing as appropriate information on the risks, costs and benefits
associated with the decisions.

8. They will support the promotion of environmental objectives and awareness in
the field of education.

9. They will strengthen their co-operation in the OECD in order to encourage
arrangements between interested parties on international environmental
problems, and to seek harmonization of national environmental policies.

10. They will continue to co-operate to the greatest extent possible, both
bilaterally and through appropriate international organisations, with all
countries, in particular developing countries in order to assist in preventing
environmental deterioration.

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+This is a part of the International Environmental Agreements Compendium, compiled 1995 by the Pollution Prevention and Pesticide Management Branch, Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks, British Columbia, Canada.

1 The mention of "Governments" is deemed to apply also to the European Communities.